Home Advantage Revisited: Did COVID Level the Playing Fields?

• Authors: Paweł Strawiński , Michał Krawczyk

Abstracts

EN

The COVID-19 pandemic swept fans out of the stadiums, but matches continued to be played in most major football leagues. We make use of this natural experiment to investigate if home field advantage disappears when the home team is not supported by the fans. Focusing on four top European football leagues, we find such an effect in the Bundesliga only. We propose that this singularity may be related to the special role that the fan associations play in German football.

Keywords

EN

football; home-field advantage; COVID-19; supporters; fans

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Central European Economic Journal
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 56
• Pages: 56-67

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Paweł Strawiński

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000322471658

author

Michał Krawczyk

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000167951175

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ceej-2022-0004

Biblioteka Nauki

2076908